So I understand that Up and Down quarks make Protons and Neutrons so why do we bot see more of the other types of quarks around us and the various particles they compose?
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As others have said, those four extra quarks are higher energy versions of the up and down. If you take a look at the standard model you will find that the very same works for electrons, which are the “base version” of muons and tauons. Only with their neutrinos it is a bit different, they can even turn into each other. In general the higher variants decay rather quickly into the base forms, hence why they are rarely around.
So in short: there are two base quarks (up, down), and two basic leptons (electron, e-neutrino). Each has three “variants”, plus all have anti-particles. Stuff prefers to be basic.
Plus the force carriers, which also somewhat group together under electro-weak unification/the Higgs mechanism (except gluons, and hypothetical gravitons… yet). But that’s another story.
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